palpus
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Each short palpus has a large middle joint and a small joint at the tip.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
Palpiger: that sclerite of the labium to which the labial palpus is attached corresponds to the palpifer of the maxilla and has been used in the same general sense.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
Palpifer: any palpus-bearing part: specifically, a small sclerite hearing the maxillary palpus and itself articulated to the stipes.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are: 1st, Nemocera, or those with long antennæ, having more than six joints, and palpi having four or five joints.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
The fore wings should slope slightly forwards so that a line drawn from the point of one to the point of the other will just miss the head and palpi.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.
The blue-green on the upper surface of the wings is very resplendent and changeable, and the palpi and thorax beneath are covered with numerous whitish spots.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William
When this organ is not in use, it is beautifully coiled into a close spiral which lies between the labial palpi.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.
